Digital Eclipse is on fire lately! The creators of Atari 50 and Karateka Gold are now setting their sights on cult game designer Jeff Minter, who made dozens of twitchy arcade-style titles for home computers like the VIC-20 and Atari ST....
Finding news on retro games, or games that invoke the feel of old favorites from the 1990s, can be tough. However, sometimes you get lucky, and that news just comes out of nowhere....
Lately, not on the Switch. The entire Johnny Turbo's Arcade line, featuring middling emulations of Data East arcade titles, has recently been purged from the eShop. Golem's Retroclassix, also featuring Data East titles like Heavy Barrel and Bad Dudes, has similarly been excised from Nintendo's online store....
Here's a Cohost post I made paying tribute to McDonald's Treasureland Adventure. It's the kind of game that could only exist in 1993, back when McDonald's wasn't ashamed to be tacky and weird, and when Treasure was hungry enough for work that they'd take on a nutty project like this. It's not the best Treasure title on the Sega...
Good news for Genesis and Neo-Geo owners hoping for a new bone to chew... Neofid's DaemonClaw has hit its Kickstarter goal of $53,736, two days after the fundraiser started. Seems people really, REALLY want this game. Like, yesterday....
The original Fatal Fury on the Neo-Geo was ported to the Sega Genesis thirty years ago, but a slim cartridge size meant there were a lot of compromises to what was already a fairly simplistic versus fighting game....
Well, this was "fun" news to wake up to... long-running classic gaming forum AtariAge has been purchased by Atari, with its co-founder Albert Yarusso hired to maintain the site....
Gematsu reports that the Nintendo DS game Game Center CX (known in America as "Retro Game Challenge") and its sequel (known in America as "unreleased") will come to the Nintendo Switch at some yet undetermined point in the future....
Hike up those Huggies, babies, because Rugrats is coming to the Nintendo Entertainment System (and a bunch of other game consoles) in Adventures in Gameland. Those other systems will let you switch between 8-bit graphics and a high-definition style that's more faithful to the cartoon, like what Disney and Capcom gave us in...
In the grand tradition of Punch Out!! and Wade Hixton's Counter Punch comes Big Boy Boxing, from Alpha Beta Gamer. This demo lets you mix it up with everyone from steroid-charged pugilists to Mr. Adyltmen, who is absolutely an adult man and not three kids in a trenchcoat....
We're talking thirty minutes of brand new, fan-designed video games. Sure hope you've got the attention span to sit through it all, because there are some can't miss indie titles included! Thanks to Matt Hughson for posting this footage... I try to keep up with the retro console homebrew scene, but I had no idea half these games...
The Swedish gaming conglomerate Embracer Group thought it could buy a dozen development studios, then use them to build an empire rivaling Activision and Electronic Arts. When that didn't happen, Embracer did what companies often do in this situation... they killed the studios they purchased, while keeping the intellectual...
Video games are an expensive hobby, but the truly determined among us find ways to make it work, even on a tight budget. In an interview with My Retro Life, John Hancock talks about a special Christmas when he received a TurboGrafx-16. His mother was ashamed that a clearance priced game console at Toys 'R Us was all she could...
YouTube personality Sega Lord X digs into the latest build of Doom Resurrection in his latest video. For those unaware, Doom Resurrection is a second attempt at a Doom port for the 32X, and a more impressive effort than the first. You're getting enemies that weren't in the original 32X port, a wider variety of weapons, enhanced...
YouTube member Svenny McG introduces the world to the Nyko Air Flow controller for the original Xbox. This amusingly over-engineered joypad has a massive fan built into the unit, which draws in air from the bottom and redistributes it through vents built into the handles. What this means for you, the player, is less sweaty...
John from Gen X Grown Up takes a deep dive into the 20th Century Fox library for the Atari 2600. There are some gems to be found scattered amidst the rough- Doug Neubauer's very Pac-Man like Alien and Sirius' Worm War I for instance- but for the most part, Fox should have stuck with movies.
In its latest video, Greg's Game Room compares nearly forty games released for both the Atari 5200 (or its close cousin, the Atari 400 computer) and the ColecoVision....
It's not just Street Fighter 2, but a lot of competitors, particularly King of Fighters. You've heard the line from Terry Bogard before, I'm sure... "KOF was just a front for something bad?" Yes, Terry, yes! Just like the last fourteen times! Like the time they were going to resurrect an unstoppable eight-headed serpent from the...
Who'd have thunk the Intellivision would still be going strong forty-five years after its release? That's forty-five years longer than its would-be successor the Amico lasted......
Gaming historian Jeremy Parish takes an in-depth look at the Epoch Cassette Vision, an early Japanese game console with the brains of the system inside the cartridge, rather than the console itself. (Milton Bradley's Microvision, released around the same time, took a similar approach.)...
Remember Parasol Stars? Possibly not; it's one of the more obscure games in the Bubble Bobble series, released for the Turbografx-16 instead of the more popular Sega Genesis and Super NES....
Don't forget to stream Good Omens (Seasons 1 and 2), give them good ratings, keep sharing it across social media and support the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes to help make Season 3 happen! The writers and actors deserve a livable income and reasonable work hours/conditions, as well as the opportunity to make the high-quality art they want to share with the world 💚
Minter comes alive in Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story, coming for numerous game systems (www.youtube.com)
Digital Eclipse is on fire lately! The creators of Atari 50 and Karateka Gold are now setting their sights on cult game designer Jeff Minter, who made dozens of twitchy arcade-style titles for home computers like the VIC-20 and Atari ST....
Good Feel revives the spirit of Goemon with percussive platformer Mameda Bakeru (www.youtube.com)
Finding news on retro games, or games that invoke the feel of old favorites from the 1990s, can be tough. However, sometimes you get lucky, and that news just comes out of nowhere....
Where is Johnny Turbo?
Lately, not on the Switch. The entire Johnny Turbo's Arcade line, featuring middling emulations of Data East arcade titles, has recently been purged from the eShop. Golem's Retroclassix, also featuring Data East titles like Heavy Barrel and Bad Dudes, has similarly been excised from Nintendo's online store....
The french fried fever dream of McDonald's Treasureland Adventure (cohost.org)
Here's a Cohost post I made paying tribute to McDonald's Treasureland Adventure. It's the kind of game that could only exist in 1993, back when McDonald's wasn't ashamed to be tacky and weird, and when Treasure was hungry enough for work that they'd take on a nutty project like this. It's not the best Treasure title on the Sega...
Stylish 16-bit action game DaemonClaw reaches its Kickstarter goal in two days! (www.kickstarter.com)
Good news for Genesis and Neo-Geo owners hoping for a new bone to chew... Neofid's DaemonClaw has hit its Kickstarter goal of $53,736, two days after the fundraiser started. Seems people really, REALLY want this game. Like, yesterday....
Fatal Fury resurrected on the Sega Genesis (www.youtube.com)
The original Fatal Fury on the Neo-Geo was ported to the Sega Genesis thirty years ago, but a slim cartridge size meant there were a lot of compromises to what was already a fairly simplistic versus fighting game....
AtariAge becomes Atari's page (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Well, this was "fun" news to wake up to... long-running classic gaming forum AtariAge has been purchased by Atari, with its co-founder Albert Yarusso hired to maintain the site....
Game Center CX and its sequel set to resurface on the Switch (www.gematsu.com)
Gematsu reports that the Nintendo DS game Game Center CX (known in America as "Retro Game Challenge") and its sequel (known in America as "unreleased") will come to the Nintendo Switch at some yet undetermined point in the future....
Rugrats without regrets: Classic Nicktoon comes to the NES (retrododo.com)
Hike up those Huggies, babies, because Rugrats is coming to the Nintendo Entertainment System (and a bunch of other game consoles) in Adventures in Gameland. Those other systems will let you switch between 8-bit graphics and a high-definition style that's more faithful to the cartoon, like what Disney and Capcom gave us in...
Big Boy Boxing is a gorgeously animated take on Punch-Out!! (www.alphabetagamer.com)
In the grand tradition of Punch Out!! and Wade Hixton's Counter Punch comes Big Boy Boxing, from Alpha Beta Gamer. This demo lets you mix it up with everyone from steroid-charged pugilists to Mr. Adyltmen, who is absolutely an adult man and not three kids in a trenchcoat....
Indie-Palooza 2023! A hundred new homebrew titles showcased for over a dozen game consoles! (www.youtube.com)
We're talking thirty minutes of brand new, fan-designed video games. Sure hope you've got the attention span to sit through it all, because there are some can't miss indie titles included! Thanks to Matt Hughson for posting this footage... I try to keep up with the retro console homebrew scene, but I had no idea half these games...
The Volition Demolition: Saint's Row studio shuttered by Embracer Group (www.eurogamer.net)
The Swedish gaming conglomerate Embracer Group thought it could buy a dozen development studios, then use them to build an empire rivaling Activision and Electronic Arts. When that didn't happen, Embracer did what companies often do in this situation... they killed the studios they purchased, while keeping the intellectual...
Gaming on the Margins (www.youtube.com)
Video games are an expensive hobby, but the truly determined among us find ways to make it work, even on a tight budget. In an interview with My Retro Life, John Hancock talks about a special Christmas when he received a TurboGrafx-16. His mother was ashamed that a clearance priced game console at Toys 'R Us was all she could...
Doom 32X gets a resurrection, and you might get one too after seeing this footage! (www.youtube.com)
YouTube personality Sega Lord X digs into the latest build of Doom Resurrection in his latest video. For those unaware, Doom Resurrection is a second attempt at a Doom port for the 32X, and a more impressive effort than the first. You're getting enemies that weren't in the original 32X port, a wider variety of weapons, enhanced...
The Nyko Air Flow brings new meaning to the term "Xbox fanboy" (www.youtube.com)
YouTube member Svenny McG introduces the world to the Nyko Air Flow controller for the original Xbox. This amusingly over-engineered joypad has a massive fan built into the unit, which draws in air from the bottom and redistributes it through vents built into the handles. What this means for you, the player, is less sweaty...
Nintendo... Focus? Might I suggest a different name?
Sucks like a fox! Gen X Grown Up reviews the 20th Century Fox game library for the Atari 2600 (www.youtube.com)
John from Gen X Grown Up takes a deep dive into the 20th Century Fox library for the Atari 2600. There are some gems to be found scattered amidst the rough- Doug Neubauer's very Pac-Man like Alien and Sirius' Worm War I for instance- but for the most part, Fox should have stuck with movies.
Grudge Match! The Atari 5200 and ColecoVision Struggle for Pre-Crash, Next-Gen Dominance! (www.youtube.com)
In its latest video, Greg's Game Room compares nearly forty games released for both the Atari 5200 (or its close cousin, the Atari 400 computer) and the ColecoVision....
Why are fighting tournaments always the front for an evil scheme, anyway? (www.youtube.com)
It's not just Street Fighter 2, but a lot of competitors, particularly King of Fighters. You've heard the line from Terry Bogard before, I'm sure... "KOF was just a front for something bad?" Yes, Terry, yes! Just like the last fourteen times! Like the time they were going to resurrect an unstoppable eight-headed serpent from the...
It's-a... someone else: Charles Martinet distances himself from the role of Mario and instead becomes a "Mario ambassador" (www.gematsu.com)
Mario Ambassador? Did he pay too much for a Nintendo 3DS and get a dozen free Game Boy Advance games?...
The Bandai MEGA controller for the NES... it's overkill-licious!
Three new games released for the Intellivision (forums.atariage.com)
Who'd have thunk the Intellivision would still be going strong forty-five years after its release? That's forty-five years longer than its would-be successor the Amico lasted......
NES Works Gaiden swings a bat and an axe with the Epoch Cassette Vision (www.youtube.com)
Gaming historian Jeremy Parish takes an in-depth look at the Epoch Cassette Vision, an early Japanese game console with the brains of the system inside the cartridge, rather than the console itself. (Milton Bradley's Microvision, released around the same time, took a similar approach.)...
Spica softly and carry a big umbrella! Spica Adventure revives the gameplay of Parasol Stars for a new generation of consoles (www.gematsu.com)
Remember Parasol Stars? Possibly not; it's one of the more obscure games in the Bubble Bobble series, released for the Turbografx-16 instead of the more popular Sega Genesis and Super NES....